Object Quotes

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise.

I was terrified of vault, like literally I hated it. I had a fear of running as fast as I could at a solid object, which is I think a normal fear to have because nobody would really want to do that. Once I got over the fear of running into the table I just kind of relaxed and now it's like autopilot. I love it.

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space.

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.